About Us

About ARTSIDEOUT

ARTSIDEOUT is a large-scale, one-day, multidisciplinary arts festival at the University of Toronto Scarborough. The festival transforms U of T Scarborough with site-specific installations, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and more! ARTSIDEOUT is a result of wide-ranging collaboration between student organizers from various disciplines, community organizations, and passionate artists. Involving individuals from various walks of life, ARTSIDEOUT celebrates the rich diversity of the community.

Our Mission

ARTSIDEOUT challenges familiar use of space and forms connections between artistic practices in Scarborough. Inspiring critical engagement with ordinary spaces and artistic expression, ARTSIDEOUT promotes creativity and offers a venue to explore artistic skills, viewpoints, and concepts. ARTSIDEOUT reveals the potential that is inherent in everyday life at the U of T Scarborough.

WE BRING SCARBOROUGH'S ART SIDE OUT!

Our Values

Critical expression

We believe that art and art-making has the powerful capacity to engage critical reflection. Art allows the expression of everyday lived experiences and societal movements.

Accessibility

We continue to work towards providing a platform for peoples of all identities to engage with art.

Student engagement

We support personal and professional development of students

Inclusion and diversity

We encourage membership from individuals of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Collaboration

We are built on strong partnerships between UofT students and faculty, artists and non-artists, and community members and organizations.

Land Acknowledgement

ARTSIDEOUT takes place on this sacred land on which the University of Toronto operates. Toronto (from the Haudenosaunee word Tkaronto) has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and celebrate art and creativity in this territory.